The Church within the Cotroceni Presidential Office, Consecrated by the Patriarch of Romania

Romanian Orthodox Church

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, surrounded by several hierarchs of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, has consecrated today, October 11, the church with the feast days of the Dormition of the Theotokos and of the Holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus located in the presidential office complex at Cotroceni. The event was attended by the President of Romania, Traian Basescu, his wife, and other representatives of state and local authorities.

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel underlined the importance of this act of moral reparation for our Church, following the Communist regime during which hundreds of worship places were demolished. Subsequently, President Traian Basescu showed that at this holy moment, the power of the Church, the political power and the Romanians’ power are all brought together.

The new holy place received several gifts from the Romanian Patriarchate and the Metropolitanate of Oltenia. Two fragments of the holy relics of he Holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus, the protectors of the church within the presidential office complex at Cotroceni, were offered by the Metropolitanate of Oltenia and placed in a special box offered by the Romanian Patriarchate, which also gave the newly consecrated church a blessing cross, an icon of St. Basil the Great, the Holy Bible and The Liturgikon, the jubiliary edition of 2008.

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